FSU Baseball makes mistake finishing final Mike Martin season on road

FSU baseball said goodbye to their legendary head coach after 40 seasons at the helm – and with at least seven more games to be played in the season.

Sunday afternoon inside of a hot Dick Howser Stadium that bares his name for the field, longtime FSU baseball head coach Mike Martin said goodbye to the thousands of fans that came out for the regular season home finale against the Richmond Spiders and celebrate four decades of No. 11 leading the Seminoles onto the field.

Of course, it won’t even be close to the final games of the season for the Seminoles as they close out the regular season next weekend at Louisville followed by at least three games the following week in Durham, North Carolina as part of the ACC tournament and who knows how many games in the postseason part of the NCAA tournament.

While nobody saw that the Seminoles were going to have their issues this season – finishing this past weekend with a record of 34-18 and in need of a strong finish to not get buried in the postseason – the fact that FSU baseball is saying goodbye to No. 11 away from Tallahassee is a big time mistake for a big time program.

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It was this past June – not long after the Noles got sent packing early from the NCAA tournament inside of Howser – when Martin announced that this was going to be his final season leading the Seminoles into action…months before the schedule for 2019 even came close to being released.

That fact alone means that both FSU baseball and the Atlantic Coast Conference had plenty of time to make things work out the right way for all parties involved – the Seminoles could have, at the absolute least, finished the regular season at home to say goodbye to their longtime coach the right way.

(Of course, the Noles could have also not been no-hit by a Stetson team with a losing record at the time or choked in the middle of the season to avoid playing the postseason on the road but that’s an issue for another article).

Now, there is still a chance that FSU baseball could figure out a way to backdoor into at least hosting the first series of regional games in the NCAA tournament – but that would, more than likely, require the Seminoles to sweep the Cardinals this coming weekend as well as go 4-0 the following week in Durham.

If that takes place, the Seminoles would walk into the postseason as the back-to-back-to-back champs of the ACC tournament as well as having over 40 wins on the season and less than 20 losses. If that resume got turned down, something would be seriously screwed up.

But, at this moment, it appears that FSU baseball has said goodbye to their longtime coach from the comforts of home – and with this many games left in the season, something is wrong about that.